Jim,
Great information; thank you.
I worked for EDS in 1978; they were still running OS/MVT 21.8 at that time,
supporting five Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans in the Northeast.
Mike Shaw
MVS/QuickRef Support Group
Chicago-Soft, Ltd.
On Sat, Feb 25, 2023, 7:49 PM Jim Marshall <
04a082badc3
They do not support whatever is in TCBPKF. I have seen code in TSO which has
hardcoded x'80'.
Jim Mulder
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Jaffe
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To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Cant SPKA to PSW
On 25/02/2023 4:23 am, Farley, Peter wrote:
The other issue is CPU usage in today's frequently-CPU-constrained-due-to-cost
mainframe shops.
This is a major issue on z/OS today.
My laptop has 10 cores/12 logical processors. I'm developing on the
laptop for z/OS. I constantly have to be aware t
Jim
How about IDF or tool debug I have been trying to get IDF running so I can
debug code running in key 4 but if you say I’m wasting my time ?
> On Feb 26, 2023, at 5:18 PM, Jim Mulder wrote:
>
> They do not support whatever is in TCBPKF. I have seen code in TSO which
> has
> hardcoded
On 25/02/2023 8:03 am, Bob Bridges wrote:
Oh, I was going to mention that surely allocating datasets, either in batch or
TSO, has got to seem like one of the dumbest and most incomprehensible things
we do on the mainframe, to a foreigner.
Allocating datasets shouldn't be that hard to grasp. "
I have never used IDF. When I want to trace through authorized code,
I run z/OS under z/VM and use the TRACE command.
Jim Mulder
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Joseph Reichman
Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2023 5:36 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
S
Eons ago, I tried out the RACF ISPF panels once. Took me 10x as long
to navigate to the panel as just typing the actual line command. What
those panels should do, but I don't know whether they do this or not,
is display the line command as it's executed.
To this day I don't understand why ex
